Digital Communication

Acronym:

ESS Vision 2020 DIGICOM

DIGICOM stands for Digital communication, User analytics and Innovative products. The project’s goal is to create new, innovative dissemination products, tools and services for ESS
statistics. On 19 November 2015, the European Statistical System Committee approved the DIGICOM
business case. Work on the project started in 2016 and is expected to end at the end of 2019.

The idea is that Eurostat
and the National Statistical Institutes across Europe work together to develop solutions in four fields, or four “work packages”. Main areas of work will be :- innovative user interaction- modern visualisation tools- easy access to data, (linked) open data,- communication and promotion.

DIGICOM
aims to enhance the capacity of the ESS
to be agile and responsive to our users’ needs. To do this a two-pronged approach will be used; on one hand measures will be undertaken to better gauge the unmet needs of current and future users and, on the other hand, actually develop the innovative solutions to meet those needs.

However, DIGICOM
not only considers users’ expressed needs, but also essentials such as policymakers’ needs for reliable evidence and citizens’ needs for information to support “life decisions”. For this reason, the DIGICOM
project includes promoting and communicating the value of European Statistics as a reliable basis for evidence-based decision-making and an unbiased picture of society.

What is the CROS Portal?

The CROS
Portal is a content management system based on Drupal and stands for "Portal on Collaboration in Research and Methodology for Official Statistics". The CROS
Portal is dedicated to the collaboration between researchers and Official Statisticians in Europe and beyond. It provides a working space and tools for dissemination and information exchange for statistical projects and methodological topics. Services provided include hosting of statistical communities, repositories of useful documents, research results, project deliverables, and discussion fora on different topics like the future research needs in Official Statistics.